How Xinwang Bank Achieved Level‑3 DevOps Continuous Delivery – A Success Story

On December 24, the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) launched the 2021 GOLF+ IT New Governance Leadership Forum, focusing on digital governance and XOPS innovation.

During the forum, CAICT announced the 16th batch of DevOps standard continuous delivery assessment results. Xinwang Bank’s distributed consumer loan core system successfully passed the Level‑3 continuous delivery assessment, demonstrating advanced DevOps capabilities.

Interview with Xinwang Bank’s Information Technology Director, Mao Hang

Q: Please introduce your company and the project evaluated.

Mao Hang explained that Xinwang Bank, a digital‑native bank, adopts agile development and has built a distributed loan core system using micro‑service architecture, covering product, user, credit, payment, and accounting services.

Q: How does it feel to achieve Level‑3 continuous delivery?

He expressed pride, noting that the assessment validates the bank’s DevOps practice and will serve as a model for broader adoption.

Q: Why did you decide to join the DevOps standard assessment?

The bank sought to improve collaboration efficiency and delivery quality as its business and technology teams grew, aiming to reduce costs, increase quality, and lower entropy.

Q: What benefits has the assessment brought?

The evaluation shortened development cycles, improved product quality, and promoted DevOps culture. The bank established an end‑to‑end pipeline, layered testing strategy, and quality gate system.

Q: What concrete results were achieved?

Average daily code commits reached 30, integrations 4, builds 85 (each 3 minutes), unit test coverage 80 %, interface test coverage 100 %, automated smoke test success 100 %, overall automated test success 99.5 %, delivery capability increased 35 %, defect density dropped 60 %, weekly releases 2 with 100 % success.

Q: How was the assessment process?

The team prepared a dedicated evaluation group, clarified the standard, and overcame misunderstandings and COVID‑19 communication challenges by converting discussions into tracked tasks.

Q: What are the next steps?

The bank plans to refine its own DevOps standards based on CAICT’s model, expand the efficiency platform, and further empower development teams.

DevOps Standard Overview

The CAICT DevOps Capability Maturity Model, co‑created with industry leaders, is the first domestic and international DevOps series standard, covering agile management, continuous delivery, technical operations, application design, security, risk management, and tool assessment. It was officially adopted by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and recognized by the ITU‑T as a global standard.

Statistics as of December 24 2021 show extensive adoption across city‑commercial and private banks, with numerous projects evaluated at various maturity levels.

For more information on the DevOps assessment, contact CAICT or the listed representatives.